Explaining Post-Soviet Patchworks

Klaus Segbers, Born 1954, Director of the Institute for East European Studies and Professor for Political Sciences at the Institute for East European Studies and the Department for Political and Social Sciences, Free University, Berlin, Germany.

’...valuable source for anyone interested in the politics and economy of the former "Second World".’ Business Horizons ’Th[is] book takes a significant step toward redressing the balance between internal and external factors in late and post-Soviet develoments.’ Slavic Review

• Contents: Actors and interests in a changing Russia, Klaus Segbers; International financial organizations and globalization by default, Ognian Hishow; The origins and management of the federal debt to the world, Artos G. Sarkisiants; Financial supervision and moral hazard on an emerging market, Irina N. Iudina; Large corporations as national and global players: the case of Gazprom, Andreas Heinrich; Large corporations as national and global players: the case of Lukoil, Sergei P. Peregudov; The mining and metal industry and globalization, Stephen Fortescue; The banking sector and its international involvement, Artos G. Sarkisiants; Financial groups and the development of market institutions, Grigorii V. Krasnov; The mass media between political instrumentalization, economic concentration and global assimilation, Ivan I. Zasurskii; The telecommunications sector: signs of liberalization and globalization, Elena K. Rytsareva; High-technology defense production: the move into foreign markets, Ruslan N. Pukhov; Defense industry managers and the dynamics of intra-sectoral divergence, Leonid I. Kosals and Rozalina V. Ryvkina; Actors in agro-food policy: who shapes outcomes?, Evgeniia V. Serova; Agrarian actors in the localities, Zemfira I. Kalugina; Industrial managers’ aspirations towards foreign markets: motives, methods and the consequences for companies, Igor B. Gurkov; Small business in the context of international integration, Tat’aina A. Alimova; The self-denying middle-class in a global age, Harley D. Balzer; Bibliography; Index.